Editors, Journalists, Publishers

When black journalist Vincent "Roi" Ottley was assigned to cover the European theater in World War II, he provided a perspective shared by few other war correspondents. But what he really saw has taken more than sixty years to come to light. Already...

Edmund Curll was a notorious figure among the publishers of the early eighteenth century: for his boldness, his lack of scruple, his publication of work without author's consent, and his taste for erotic and scandalous publications. He was in legal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812980561Author Jeff HimmelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471477532Author Bob EdwardsFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648118381Author Thalif DeenFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Grigson Consulting Pty LtdPublisher Grigson Consulting Pty LtdWeight(grams)...

As seen on Fox and Friends From the front lines in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and other conflict zones to the base of the burning Twin Towers on 9/11 to the eye of countless hurricanes, Rick Leventhal chronicles some of the most amazing stories he's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385335072Author Michael KordaFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

On The Frontlines of the Television War is the story of Yasutsune "Tony" Hirashiki's ten years in Vietnam-beginning when he arrived in 1966 as a young freelancer with a 16mm camera but without a job or the slightest grasp of English and ending in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805076967Author Caroline MooreheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 465Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805076967Author Caroline MooreheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 465Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm)...

This Element throws new light on James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson by investigating its early publication history. Despite precarious psychological and financial circumstances and other limitations, Boswell was both author and publisher of the...

Intimate. Revealing. Candid. Published by the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, Conversations with Cronkite gives readers a rare glimpse into the life and times of Walter Cronkite in his own words. The book contains selections from interviews...

In this crackling memoir, the journalist and novelist Michael Idov recounts the tempestuous years he spent living alongside - and closely observing - the media and cultural elite of Putin's Russia. After accepting a surprise offer to become the editor in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Biography).Book InformationISBN 9780452255500Author Russell BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher...

A classic of world literature back in print in a Spanish-language edition.Wisconsin edition is for sale only in North America.About the AuthorJacobo Timerman (1923-1999) was born in the Ukraine, moved with his family to Argentina in 1928, and was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New Mexico Book Awards (Biography) 2010 and New Mexico Book Awards (Best of) 2010.Book InformationISBN 9780060798703Author James McGrath MorrisFormat...

INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Peter Mansbridge invites us to walk the beat with him in this entertaining and revealing look into his life and career, from his early broadcasting days in the remote northern Manitoba community of Churchill to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743284769Author James TobinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439141144Author Edna BuchananFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Pocket BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 132mm * 28mm

A harrowing and unforgettable look at reporting in Mexico, one of the world's most dangerous countries to be a journalist In 2017, Mexico edged out Iraq and Syria as the deadliest country in the world in which to be a reporter, with at least...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780071499118Author Christopher RobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint McGraw-Hill EducationPublisher McGraw-Hill EducationWeight(grams) 431g

For many Americans, Peter Jennings was the voice and face that gave shape and meaning to every day's news. In this oral biography, readers witness Jennings' extraordinary rise to the top of his profession, but they get to know him as a person, too. It...

Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Lewis M. Simons's recollects his 50 years as a foreign correspondent, one whose powerful stories contributed to transforming Asia from Vietnam War-era basket case to a global boomtown that today rivals the United States. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375758232Author Adam GopnikFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 268g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598533088Author H. L. MenckenFormat HardbackPage Count 750Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 735gDimensions(mm)...

This is a follow-on volume to the author's highly successful "Baghdad, Yesterday" (Ibis Editions, Jerusalem, 2007), which told of Sasson Somekh's boyhood in the city of his birth and the circumstances under which his family decided to forsake Iraq, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956368638Author Geoffrey GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Revel BarkerPublisher Revel BarkerWeight(grams) 371gDimensions(mm) 152mm * 229mm *...

Bernard Fall wrote the classics Street Without Joy and Hell in a Very Small Place, which detailed the French experience in Vietnam. One of the first (and the best-informed) Western observers to say that the United States could not win there either, he...

In his long-overdue first collection of essays, noted journalist and NPR commentator Andrew Lam explores his lifelong struggle for identity as a Viet Kieu, or a Vietnamese national living abroad. At age eleven, Lam, the son of a South Vietnamese general,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250781369Author Lisa RogakFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 226mm...

Teachers are the people Martin Fletcher met throughout his work as a news correspondent, often on the worst day of their lives. He watched as they picked up the pieces following personal tragedy and discovered the invaluable lesson of carrying on, no...

Teachers are the people Martin Fletcher met throughout his work as a news correspondent, often on the worst day of their lives. He watched as they picked up the pieces following personal tragedy and discovered the invaluable lesson of carrying on, no...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062896391Author Benjamin MoserFormat HardbackPage Count 832Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 1134g

The legendary Boss Tweed effectively controlled New York City from after the Civil War until his downfall in November 1871. A huge man, he and his Ring of Thieves appeared to be invincible as they stole an estimated $2 billion in today's dollars. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670093984Author Prem PrakashFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 240mm * 150mm * 30mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802140500Author Walt HarringtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

"I love Nick Lyons's books. Every sentence is so full and ripe." --Ted Hughes, former Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II FIRE IN THE STRAW is the witty and deeply felt memoir of Nick Lyons, a man with an intrepid desire to reinvent himself--which he...

My War is a blunt, funny, idiosyncratic account of Andy Rooney's World War II. As a young, naive correspondent for The Stars and Stripes , Rooney flew bomber missions, arrived in France during the D-Day invasion, crossed the Rhine with the Allied...

In 1984 journalist Peregrine Hodson crossed the Pakistan border into Afghanistan with rebel mujahedin smuggling arms and ammunition, beginning a thousand-mile journey through the war-torn nation. Fluent in Farsi, he was able to observe the war with...

Drawing on her remarkable personal history, Davar Ardalan brings us the lives of three generations of women and their ordeals with love, rejection, and revolution. Ardalan's Iranian American parents, who barely spoke Farsi, moved from San Francisco to...